On the day the pubs are allowed to re-open to serve cusomers sitting outdoors it is going to be a perishing day with snow. The early forecast said there would be light snow at 10am. It actually fell at about 7.30am.
  It wasn't exactly a blizzard, and it didn't settle even with it being under 2° C outside with frost on a few shed and car roofs. The 8am revision to the forecast said there should have been heavy snow an hour ago, there wasn't, and  light snow now, there isn't ! Fog is forecast for 11am. The 9am revision has removed all mention of snow and fog, but it now shows 1pm as being dull and 4° C - 1pm would be when I might have met Angela for a lunchtime drink if it had been warm and sunny. There could be sunny spells later, and by late afternoon the temperature may peak at 8° C again. It is going to be a cold start tomorrow, but there could be sunny spells for a lot of the morning. The afternoon may be dull, but by late afternoon the temperature may reach 11° C.

  Yesterday was probably rather typical of a Sunday - mostly boring. That is more true of the afternoon. As I described yesterday, I was semi busy in the morning. The most important thing I did yesterday was to take a backup of my PC. It took several hours, and that long wait made me think about a future job I have to do. I think I mentioned yesterday that I have had hints that the main 2TB hard drive in my PC is getting unreliable. I found a few photos corrupted. It was that corruption that spurred me to make the backup yesterday.

  One problem with my current PC is that it seems to have a design flaw in it. It is only an ill informed guess, but it seems like there is a bottleneck in the data busses. Moving data to and from a USB3 equipped hard drive should be lightning fast, but it seems no faster than USB2, and sometimes slower. What's more is thata while the data transfer is taking place the computer feels exceedingly sluggish.

  I have to admit it is clutching at straws, but I noticed that there are now "second user" 4th generation i5 processor PCs on Amazon that are fairly cheap, or even fery cheap. My current PC is a 3rd generation i5 processor PC. It is going to cost me £137, or roughly the same price as my current PC cost 6 months or so ago, to find out of my theory hold any water, or if it is nothing but a pipe dream.

  My hope is that with the old and new hard drives connected to the new PC, when it comes in a few days time, and with the PC booted from a live CD of disk utilities, I will be able to clone the old to the new hard drive in rather less time than it would take in my current PC. Even if it is a lot quicker it will still be a slow process, and I'll be off line for most of the day.

  I was often bored enough, or perhaps not distracted enough, to feel hungry when I really shouldn't have needed to eat yesterday, and in the afternoon I had a few snacks. That limited my options for dinner. In theory I could have knocked up some sort of healthy dinner, but I took the easy path, and had a couple of cans of "chunky" soup.  That stuff seems to have less or equal sugar in it than "no added sugar" soups, but has the advantage of being very nice - something the Heinz "no added sugar" soups are not.

  I wanted to be up early this morning for my Monday morning shopping trip to Aldi, and so I thought I wanted to be asleep early as well. It seems another part of my brain had different ideas, and it took ages, well, at least a couple of hours before I fell asleep last night. Once  was asleep I seemed to sleep rather well. They felt dreamlike, but I know I got up a couple of times for a wee in the night. I then woke up far earlier than I wanted, at about 5.45am, not busting for a wee, but feeling freezing.

   It was very cold this morning, and I only had the heater on low. That would have been OK if I hadn't kicked off the duvet, or much of it, at some time in the small hours. I did need a wee, at that time, but not desperately. I turned the heater up full on my way to the toilet, and made sure only my face wasn't covered by the duvet when I got back in bed. The next thing I knew was that it was about 6.20am and it really was time to get up.

  One of the first things I did was, as usual, to check my blood glucose level. It was 8.4mmol/l. 7.4 would have been a lot better, but 8.4 wasn't too bad. The only problem with it is that there wasn't any slack at all for today's eating - a really stupid idea for the day I do my weekly shopping !  The rest of me seemed to feel basically OK - not great, but not bad either. I may have felt a tiny bit better after a hot shower, but my shower was only warm because I reduced the temperature when we had a spring day a week or three ago. It was perfectly comfortable, but now winter has come around again it would have been nice if it was a lot hotter.

  The shower water only being warm instead of hot did have one advantage. I put on my thick winter coat to go out to Aldi, and if I had had a very hot shower I would have ended up feeling sticky or sweaty under that coat. In a curious way it was pleasant walking to Aldi. My legs seemed in fair working order, and I was neither too hot, or too cool. I still wish I had not put on so much weight over winter. The coat did feel slightly too snug for going shopping, carrying bags and such, but it would have been OK for just walking in the park, or snow, or rain. In fact I do wonder if it is feeling any more snug than it was when I first put it om when winter began. Have I really put the weight on that I think I have ? I think some of my trousers say yes even if the coat doesn't.

  This morning I have had far more breakfast than is probably good for me. it was made worse by yet another tedious call from Lee right in the middle of my breakfast. After geting off the phone it felt like I hadn't savoured my breakfast properly, and wanted something more than I could savour (and I had something very savoury !).  For someone who says he used to do pirate radio, and was a "site engineer", and who describes himself as an electronics engineer to unwary suckers, he knows precious little about tape recorders.

  I have some laundry to do today. It is already soaking in detergent. Apart from that I have no idea what I shall be doing today. Nothing seems to inspire me. I do know what I am not doing. I am not sitting in an icy cold pub beer garden at lunchtime, and I am not sitting in one in the evening when it was only be unpleasantly cold. If I feel urge I bought a 4 pack of Guinness this morning, but I reckon I'll probably just keep them for a rainy day or something.